Analysis

• Climate investment: Leading by example

  21 March 2013

  Christiana Figueres and Dominic Waughray introduce a new partnership between the UN and the World Economic Forum to showcase innovation in financing clean energy, climate adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation

• A thirst for solar

  15 March 2013

  The growing need for water is set to drive a sharp rise in energy-thirsty desalination plants. Will this open the floodgates for solar power developers? Peter Cripps investigates

• EDITORIAL: Clean-tech reinvented

  12 March 2013

  Pity the poor environmental investor. The benchmark global clean energy index stands at barely one quarter of its 2007 peak. Europe's carbon market is in the doldrums.

• People moves this month

  12 March 2013

  Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month

• PEP talk

  12 March 2013

  Bruce Usher, chairman of E+Co's successor, Persistent Energy Partners, talks carbon, clean energy and investment with Katie Kouchakji

• Forest risk rises

  11 March 2013

  The number of companies reporting to the Forest Footprint Disclosure project has broken through the 100 barrier. But with sectors such as oil and gas largely shunning the initiative, what can be done to raise awareness around forest-risk commodities? Peter Cripps reports

• Mind the risk gap

  07 March 2013

  Renewables projects are struggling to get off the ground because investors fear they are too risky. What can be done to make them a safer bet, and what role should the public sector play, asks Gianleo Frisari

• After 25 years, where to now?

  07 March 2013

  Despite a quarter of a century of growing concern about global warming, optimism among climate change professionals in finance, business and policy has perhaps never been lower. At a junction in his career, veteran Mark Trexler takes the pulse of his network, and asks, where do we go from here?

• Bond to the rescue?

  06 March 2013

  With renewables struggling to attract investment, could tapping into the $3 trillion covered bonds market help the cash to flow? Sean Kidney investigates

• Clean-tech is dead, long live clean-tech

  05 March 2013

  Many clean-tech venture investors might have struck out – but market veterans are reinventing themselves, shifting up the finance spectrum and refocusing on proven technologies. Mark Nicholls reports